Yet Another Miracle!!

First order of business: We’re having a YARD SALE SATURDAY, MARCH 12^TH!!!! It’ll be at Karen’s house (2532 Beverly Ave, Clovis) and we’d love for you to stop by!! 

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the great stuff we’ll have!

This’ll be our first fundraiser, and today we definitely saw God at work and knew we had to share it with everyone!  Here’s a bit of what happened today:

So this morning we (Karen and Katie) set out thinking we were going to pick up a few donations for our yard sale.  After driving all the way to Clovis, we got some disappointing news that the person whose stuff we were supposed to pick up didn’t have it ready and had asked if we could come back again maybe Sunday or Monday.  To be honest, Katie was a little discouraged we weren’t going to be able to pick it up today, but Karen was really positive about it.  We were already at Shannon’s house picking up her truck when we got the news, but then saw that Shannon’s next door neighbors had some office chairs out by the curb.  We went over to talk to the man and see if maybe we could have them for our yard sale.  We explained to him what we were doing, and it turns out this man and his wife are going to the Congo in July!!  It was so encouraging to share with him about our trip and hear about his own, and we were able to give him one of our letters.   Then we got a brilliant idea—it was about 11 o’clock, the time when most yard sales are shutting down, so what if we drove around the neighborhood looking for yard sales and ask if we could have any of their stuff they were going to take to goodwill?  What a crazy turn of events!

After only a few short hours, we seriously felt like this must have been what the disciples felt like walking with Jesus when he would provide out of nothing.  When we picked a date for our yard sale, we literally had pretty much nothing to contribute.  We didn’t know how it was going to be successful, so we prayed and started asking people if they wanted to donate.  There have been so many of you who have contacted us, and getting facebook messages, calls, and texts has been amazing!  But today we felt like we witnessed a miracle like Jesus feeding the 5,000.  When Jesus told his disciples to feed the people, they responded by offering him what little they had, and Jesus multiplied it mightily!  The Lord gave us so many things today—from couches to a recliner to a huge big screen TV and so much more!!  Meeting Cindy and her fiancé and Jim and his family and getting to share with both of them our trip was so encouraging (and thank you guys so much!! We know the Lord will bless you greatly for your generosity!).  We are still in shock today and just keep laughing at our crazy day of watching God bless us beyond what we even dreamed this morning. 

“”Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.’”  Malachi 3:10